Call it Tim’s choice.
It was a decision Tim Walz made 19 years ago, long before anybody could have imagined he would be the Democratic pick for vice president, five years before he became governor of Minnesota, back in the time when he had decided to run for Congress on the power of what seemed like a perfect political resume. He was a high school school teacher, football coach and longtime national guardsman who had re-upped in the aftermath of 9/11.
He had even just been provisionally promoted to the highest enlisted rank, Command Sergeant major.
